Militants Thwart Efforts to Investigate MH17 Crash Site

Ukrainian coal miners search the site of a crashed Malaysia Airlines passenger plane near the village of Rozsypne, Ukraine.

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The chairman for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a security and rights group, told Reuters that the organization's monitors were not given adequate access to the crash site of Malaysian Airline's flight MH17.

"They did not have the kind of access that they expected. They did not have the freedom of movement that they need to do their job," Thomas Greminger said. He told CNN that the group was "only allowed access to about a 200-meter strip" and heavily armed militants sent them away after about 75 minutes.

In a video conference with Russian, Ukrainian and USCE officials held earlier on Friday, the separatists had agreed to comply with a full international investigation, which included safe and complete access to the crash site in eastern Ukraine.

The USCE's claims come shortly after President Obama called for transparency.

"There has to be a credible international investigation," he said in a press conference Friday afternoon. "We will hold all [the U.N. Security Council's] members, including Russia, to their word. Evidence must not be tampered with."

"It was the total disregard to the facts. We threw up eyewitness accounts from someone on the ground openly accusing the Ukrainian government [of involvement in the disaster]," Firth told Buzzfeed. "I couldn't do it anymore," she added.

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